For my serious link of
the month, I'll start out by showing you the US
budget as a dollar, and then show you why we spend so
much.Why We Fightis an excellent documentary by
the BBC that explores the military industrial
complex which Dwight D. Eisenhower warned against
in his farewell speech “Beware the military
industrial complex”.

No conspiracy theories or anything too radical, just
a straightforward description of the US war machine
and why it must be constantly fed. Really just common
sense stuff, but it explains the end to end process
very well, and you don’t have access to stuff this
good in the US in general, so maybe it might surprise
someone.. Check it out. If you have a laptop you can
hook up to your tv, you can download the whole thing
and watch it there in fullscreen.

To take off the weight
I've gained from not smoking I'm trying a little
program on my phone calledCalorie Kingwhich has a database of foods
and I just enter in what I ate. So far I've lost
almost 5lbs and it's only been 10 days. It's
actually pretty easy to fix something when you
figure out what you're doing wrong. And it's a lot
easier for me than, say, cutting out
carbohydrates. For me the problem seems to be
beer, so I'm trying to switch to wine spritzers.
Same alcohol, less calories, and unfortunately,
decidedly less manly. But I'm confident in my
masulinity. It's helped a lot. It turns a good
night out into the equivilent of 1 trip to
mcdonalds instead of 2 (!). I had done it before,
but I didn't realize how big of a deal it was.
Unfortunately there's no such thing as light beers
here really.